The first indications that something was wrong came when NDTV anchor Barkha Dutta tweeted: another ‘wanted’ found.
Then the facts came out: another accused – Feroz Abdul Khan – named in the list of 50 most wanted terrorists believed to be hiding in Pakistan had been found inside India, following which a CBI inspector was suspended and two of its senior officials transferred.
Earlier this week, Wazhul Kamar Khan, an accused in the Mulund blast case was found to living in Mumbai, out on bail. He was the 41st name in India’s most wanted list given to Pakistan.
Feroz Abdul Khan, alias Hamza, 51, is an accused in the 1993 Mumbai blast case and the 24th name in the Most Wanted list.
He was arrested from a village in Navi Mumbai in February 2010 and is reportedly under judicial custody and locked up in Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail. During the Home Secretary level talks in March this year, a list of most wanted fugitives was handed over to Pakistani authorities. It contained Feroz Abdul’s name.
Meanwhile, realising that the issue could yet again embarrass the union government and could even cause a political crisis, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was asked by the government to formally speak on the matter. The agency has started an independent investigation on the appearance of Feroz in an Indian jail.
“We are examining the matter. If this is found correct, we will take strict action against all the erring officials,” said CBI spokesperson Dharini Mishra.
CBI had issued an Interpol Red Corner Notice against Khan in 1994 but the notice was not withdrawn even after the agency had got his custody.
“CBI has conveyed to the Home Ministry that the lapse was on the agency’s part. When CBI forwarded the list to Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), they forgot to delete the name of this person,” a Home Ministry spokesperson said.
After the huge embarrassment over the goof-up over Wazhul Kamar Khan in India’s most wanted list of fugitives in Pakistan, his profile was dropped from the CBI’s website.
On Wednesday, Home Minister P Chidambaram accepted the inclusion of terror accused Wazhul Kamar Khan in the list of most-wanted fugitives given to Pakistan was a “mistake”. He said it was a “genuine error” by Mumbai Police and an “oversight” by the Intelligence Bureau, NDTV reported.
“There was a mistake. We are not trying to blame anyone. We take responsibility for it,” said Mr Chidambaram adding that the Red-Corner alert should have been cancelled and Wazhul Khan’s name deleted from the list.
The Home Minister said the CBI was not informed of Wazhul Khan’s arrest by the Mumbai police. “It was also a lapse on the part of the Intelligence Bureau (IB),” admitted Mr Chidambaram.
Wazhul Khan is alleged to have facilitated transport and distribution of arms and ammunitions during the blast and subsequently, Mumbai police had alleged that following Dawood Ibrahim’s instructions, Khan arranged for landing of arms allegedly used in the blast.
“We are examining the matter and strict action will be initiated against erring officials,” CBI spokesperon Dharini Mishra said.
BJP leader Sushma Swaraj tweeted today saying “Another goof up. Feroze serial number 24 in India’s Most wanted
list given to Pakistan is in Mumbai jail. To err is Government of India.”
Published in The Express Tribune, May 20th, 2011.
Our Intelligence agency are embarrassment for whole nation. Seriously where is the intelligence in “intelligence agency”. I am sure private investigators would do a better job. Our babus are just busy in chewing paan and spitting around. Get your act straight you guys, if you need anybody to listen to you then stop blundering in such a way.
thats why they give indian intelligence is called as “RAW”…which means information still need to be processed to get the facts and figures..:D
I am disgraced to call myself an Indian… Our intelligence agencies got all the support they can get and still do it wrong… While Pakis have every intelligence agency in the world working against them and ppl think they are faulty! … Atleast they are putting up a fight!
Boooyaah!
And then Indians come to us with a list…Lol
And when is Pakistan ever going to hand a list to the Indians?
Now, India will stop asking about Dawood to Pakistan.!!! They will say he is in INDIA!! Thank god Hafiz Saeed is frequently on TV. At least,we can press for him.
Nonetheless,It is futile to ask for any body. Their strategic asset will not be hand over to India in any case.
Lol! How effecient Indian government institutions are? They need to wake up and stop drumming against Pakistan to get European nations’ support and plead their fake terrorist cases.
Pakistan catches a break !
Wow. Didn’t expect that sort of incompetence across the border to be honest. Just goes to show that we(meaning Pakis and Indians) are not so different from each other considering we share the same history up til a certain point 🙂
Lol @Our CBI, its so funny, in a sad way! 😀
I hope the pakistani foreign office has a strong view point on this
Mistakes should be expected in such kind of work.
I do not see any reason to create a hype.
Indian’s blind hate fro Pakistan!
Don your homework guys!!!
@Patel:
you are right that it has brought shame but it is incorrect to say one feels shame for being Indian. I thik it is over reaction, you should not be Indian just the intellegece agencies are perfect or imperfect.
Wait till you find all most wanted criminals living in RAW head office!!
Script of Bollywood movie go wrong. From the day one the script is being modified regularly. I think this is a flop film and the writer selected is not a clever one. Indian authorities should write a new script to trap Pakistan. At present they are trapped in their own trap.
“RAW” needs some fine tuning!
@NJ, You are right. Being ashamed to be an Indian is an over reaction.
@Sam, “blind hate” ….wrong words dude! There is no hatred without any reason!
@Chebbo, Before asking others to wake up…..open your eyes first. It is not a “fake terrorist case” …….26/11 is real.
Was it incompetency or complicity of indian intelligence and navy that a bunch of drunk/intoxicated guys, violated their sea space, docked their boat on mumbai harbor and went on shooting/killing rampage through out the city?
This is the true democracy that not just Indians but the whole world comes to know about their security agencies and their screw up. However, we in Pakistan still not released Rehman report about the surrender of Pakistan army in record number. Kargil fiasco and protecting OBL for almost a decade.
Mistakes, screw ups and failures should come out in the open, apologized and responsible should face justice. What a dream for this happening in Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
@san: That is a good one and probably true to a large extent
@san: RAW to be renamed COOKED
our leaders are busy in corruption, and stealing money, so no time to verify the name and protect nation’s interests, waiting for the JLP bill to throw these corrupted. then pls include the names of those that created the existing list as most wanted
@Hissam Amir Khan:
Pakistan is the best place for criminals and terrorists to hide why they will risk going to India. If Osama can live here comfortably then any one can have a safe stay.
Shahed Bilal, alleged commander of HuJI, is dead. But his name figures on the CBI most wanted list…..
Chhota Rajan aide Ejaz Pathan, involved in the 1993 serial blasts, died in 2008 at Arthur Road jail after a heart attack. The red-corner notice against him showed him as wanted…. Dawood Ibrahim’s elder brother, Noora, who died of kidney failure in Karachi last year, continued to show up as a wanted accused …
Yet another embarrassing case was that of Feroze Abdul Khan, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai blast. He was nabbed from Navi Mumbai last year and is in a Mumbai jail. He was handed over to the CBI after arrest. Yet, he is supposed to be one among the wanted.
India Zindabad!
Hahhahaahhaa. Nothing new from our neighbors. We are used to of their mega size blunders. No worries neighbors.
Was it quantity and not quality they believed in….???
Is it quantity and not quality they believe in??
@Hissam Amir Khan: dude don’t stretch it, your guys don’t have a list.
@Cheema : Nice try dude, come with some better theory next time
First is the mistake, second is the blunder. It definitely affect credibility, reliability, sincerity of nation in bilateral dealings and trustworthiness of its papers.
The problem is that a LDC/ UDC type the list (oh ! now a day … cut, copy & paste) and every other official initial the note. The mistake is unpardonable for all upto the person who has dispatched/ handed it over to the counter party in Pakistan. It is sad to note that the poor SI is suspended and seniors escape with just transfer. On the other hand senior’s should have been punished for dereliction of duty when they fail to check such errors.
RAW: oohh sorry we thought it’s 1st April..lolx
now there is a report of a 3rd goof-up who is Manipur militant believed to be hiding in Pakistan is actually in Manipur jail
First is the mistake, second is the blunder. It definitely affect credibility, reliability, sincerity of nation in bilateral dealings and trustworthiness of its papers.
The problem is that a LDC/ UDC type the list (oh ! now a day … cut, copy & paste) and every other official initial the note. The mistake is unpardonable for all upto the person who has dispatched/ handed it over to the counter party in Pakistan. It is sad to note that the poor SI is suspended and seniors escape with just transfer. On the other hand senior’s should have been punished for dereliction of duty when they fail to check such errors.
I DO NOT KNOW WHAT WE CALL THE THIRD ONE – It appears that one more person named Raj Kumar Meghen is also on list who is also in custody of NIA..
as long as these guys continue to do these goof ups everywhere.. terrorist have easy task in planning/carrying out the attacks.
@Second goof-up in India’s ‘most-wanted’ list
Hahahhahaha………its time Delhi gives its agency the sole task of assesing revenues made illegally from IPL…….the only thing they are good at!!!!!!!!!!
BRrrrrrRRR !!
I wouldn’t be surprised if all of the “most wanted” are hiding in India
Sighs…probably this will bring the much needed break in the brutal Indian assault aimed to aggravate Pakistan’s current tarnished image.
to err is to be a human, relax people we all do make mistakes and intelligence agencies are run by humans and not gods
Bade Bade mulkon mein aisee chottee chotte batein hotee rehti hain 🙂
@Rahul Singh
I agree with you…But have you ever thought WHY is it so safe???
Makes me feel like they have all been planted simply to make our lives more and more miserable…
No common man will ever give safety to an anti-socialist whether a thief or a terrorist. Its all planted and pre-planned…
@delhi_se
Oh yes we do have a LONG LONG LIST…BUT you are lucky that our govt seems to be less responsible…
Do you think that Indians dont do any sort of terrorist activities at all…Wow innocent little kids…Wow…
In times of trouble, its India that is 1st to try to screw us…Dont you think a little bit of peace would be good for both of us???
Even today one of the RAW agent was arrested from Bahawalpur…What do you say to it???
Dont say its fake, its THE news…
It is failure of Indian Agencies and emprassment of Indian Govt…
May be Indian Most wanted also hiding in Indian………
Eat the same food. Speak the same language. Yet here is the big difference.
India: Free press, failures are in the open, well recognized, huge nationwide movement to reduce corruption, with government admitting failures.
Pakistan: Tribune and Dawn are probably the only reasonable newspapers, most failures are covered up, Government denies everything and never admits a mistake, military and ISI control everything.
Both countries are poor but one is growing at 8% and the other at 2%. In 20 years, comparing the two will be a laughable exercise unless one of them changes its national culture and elects free, democratic governments and throws out the terrorists.
@Rahul Singh:
What about those 19 (so called ) terrorists who were residing in USA and did 9/11( Supposedly !??) ? Look, I do not want to trouble your immature and tiny brain to make it understand what terrorism is. OSAMA was creation of USA and remained on US CIA payroll list for 17 long years? Why was not he a terrorist then ? Use common sense which I don’t think you got nay because if You really had common sense you would first condemn the Golden Temple Act of Terrorism on your ow community by the Indian forces. It’s kind of sad that still people lie you exist.
The Indian & Pakistani Intelligence Agencies are cut from the same cloth. What is the surprise? However, Indians are very good at bad mouthing Pakistan at every oppurtunity they get and spreading half truths.
Forget the Indian list, atleast pay heed to the UN and Interpol.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Interpol-issues-Red-Corner-notice-against-Hafiz-Saeed/articleshow/4934172.cms
http://www.pakpoint.com/hafiz-saeed-to-challenge-un-in-icj-over-unsc-sanctions/1721/
http://www.interpol.int/public/data/noticesun/notices/data/1993/93/1993_14193.asp
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/sc9878.doc.htm
All the above links mention in detail the whereabouts of Dawood Ibrahim and Hafiz Saeed, both of whom are considered as Terrorists by neutral, International agencies.
We all know Indian Intelligence is still getting its act together and so is its Home Ministry. But, what is not funny is the fact that Pakistan is the epicenter of Terror and most of the World’s most wanted and dangerous men are in Pakistan.
Try to focus on something which really counts instead of poking fun at others!
@Gujjar
Bin Laden was terrorist even when he was on USA payroll, only thing is that USA was not calling him a terrorist. If you look retrospective, the mujahidin fighting soviets were no saints and were simple terrorists, it would have been wise for Pakistan to stay away from fight between US and USSR at that time.